Odetta's recordings for Vanguard are among her best, and this CD offers a healthy 21-track dose, including three unreleased tracks! Includes No More Auction Block for Me and Battle Hymn of the Republic from her Carnegie Hall performances; Southern work songs like Cotton Fields and If I Had a Hammer, and gospel favorites like Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child and Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho. Bill Lee (father of Spike Lee) accompanies on bass.
1) Midnight Special
2) Special Delivery Blues
3) Special Delivery Blues
4) Rambling Round Your City
5) Cool Water
6) Down on Me
7) I've Been Driving on Bald
8) Saro Jane
9) Battle Hymn of the Republic
10) If I Had a Hammer
11) Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
12) Meetin' at the Building
13) No More Auction Block for Me
14) Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
15) Spoken Intro: He Had a Long
16) Another Man Done Gone
17) He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
18) Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor
19) Livin' with the Blues
20) Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
21) House of the Rising Sun